CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 84, 6 March 1884, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

[Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Telegrams.] London, March 4. The Government have offered a reward of £2,000 for the arrest of the perpetrators of the recent attempts to wreck the various Metropolitan Railway termini stations by dynamite. The Franchise Bill was read a first time last night. Consols remain at 101§, and New Zealand securities at last quotations. The market rate of discount has advanced to 3| per cent.; the bank rate is still 3L There are no changes to report in the markets for Colonial breadstuffs and tallow. The catalogue at yesterday’s wool auction comprised 12,300 bales. The market continued firm, but the demand was not active. In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Gladstone, replying to a question, said that General Graham had been ordered to relieve Tokar, and added that he had already successfully effected the movement. The Premier further declared that the maintenance of the security of Souakim was essential both for the sake of peace and humanity, but the town would be abandoned when the obligation of England in connection with the Soudan had been fulfilled. • The Government did not propose to undertake the occupation of the Soudan by British troops, and would not sanction any distant expedition into the interior. The Marquis of Hartington, in answer to a question, admitted that authority had been granted for the despatch of a British contingent to assist on the Nubia frontier if necessary.